China National Botanical Garden 国家植物园Guójiā Zhíwùyuán

About China National Botanical Garden

Formed in 2022 by joining the Beijing Botanical Garden with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' garden, the China National Botanical Garden has a planned area of nearly 600 hectares at the foot of the Western Hills, between Fragrant Hills and Jade Spring Hill. The north garden has themed collections such as the peach, peony, lilac and rose gardens, a tropical conservatory, Cherry Valley (Yingtaogou) and a memorial hall to the novelist Cao Xueqin. It also takes in Wofo Temple (Shifang Pujue Temple), whose Hall of the Reclining Buddha holds a large bronze Buddha cast in 1321.

How to get to China National Botanical Garden

In Haidian District, about 18 km north-west of Tiananmen; the Xijiao light-rail line stops at the garden. The conservatories, Wofo Temple and the Cao Xueqin memorial hall are closed on Mondays (except public holidays).

Nearby

• Fragrant Hills Park 香山公园 under 10 km
  Wooded former imperial hills that turn red with smoke-tree leaves each autumn
• Summer Palace 颐和园 under 10 km
  An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat
• Old Summer Palace 圆明园 under 10 km
  Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus
• Bird's Nest and Olympic Green 奥林匹克公园 20 km
  The Bird's Nest and Water Cube, venues of the 2008 and 2022 Olympics, lit up after dark
• Prince Gong's Mansion 恭王府 20 km
  A Qing courtyard mansion and rock garden, home first to a corrupt minister, then a prince

Also within 20 km: Tuancheng Fortress 团城演武厅 (under 10 km), Badachu 八大处 (under 10 km), Fahai Temple 法海寺 (under 10 km), Luanzhou Uprising Memorial Park 辛亥滦州起义纪念园 (under 10 km), Yanyuan Campus of Peking University 北京大学燕园 (under 10 km), Cheng'en Temple 承恩寺 (under 10 km).

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